Home Front Heroes
Subtitle: The Rise of a New Hollywood Archetype, 1988-1999
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780786473335
Subjects: Film criticism; Motion pictures, united states
Description: "This book traces the effects of the feminist and civil rights movements in the construction of Hollywood action heroes. The American heroic quest of the past 25 years increasingly has involved a reclamation of home, creating a place for the Hero at the hearth, part of a more intimate community with less restrictive gender and racial boundaries"--